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Last month we purchased an iPad Pro and an Apple pencil to understand what devices were being used by Apple in this new tablet and stylus solution. This story is not about the iPad Pro, but about the Apple Pencil.

Recently we got our hands on a Sony MP-CL1 mobile projector, or as they are more commonly known these days, a pico-projector. It’s a pretty compact device being a tad under 6” long, a tad over 3” wide, and a tad over ½” thick (145 x 77 x 13 mm), and weighs in at 210 gm (~7.4 oz.), so it will definitely fit in all but the smallest purses, or make a hefty shirt-pocket full.

Chipworks Advanced CMOS Essentials (ACE) will provide you with the critical data you need – quickly and economically. The ACE folder contains hundreds of SEM and TEM images and is supported by an executive summary highlighting unique features, materials analysis and critical dimensions.

Microsemi Corp. (Aliso Viejo, California) trumped Skyworks’ (Woburn, Massachusetts) $2 billion bid for PMC-Sierra this week with their offer of $11.50 per share, or about $2.2 billion. Sunnyvale, California based PMC-Sierra provides semiconductor and software solutions used in ‘big data’ networks, the networks built by customers such as Google, IBM, HP, and others to meet the growing mobile data and internet demands. So why do Skyworks and Microsemi both want PMC?

Chipworks is in the process of producing a package analysis report detailing the AMD Fury X with Hynix's High Bandwidth Memory. The report will consist of multiple variables including TEM analysis of TSVs.

Back in April the Apple Watch appeared in our labs, and of course we analyzed it to see its contents. That set us some challenges, since inside the case we have the S1 “chip”, as Jony Ive called it in the launch last year. As you can see, it occupies most of the space inside the case, so it’s a pretty large chip; normally only the likes of IBM or Nvidia make chips this large.